That's interesting because when I install, and I have three times  now, I go to Xbox app and select My Library and then select my version of the sim and click on it and it tells me it will install in D drive in the folder I made. I let the base game install and then go into play and it tells me there are a ton of stuff it needs to install so I point that to the same folder on D drive and wait a couple hours as it installs. So both times it was  pointed to D drive - so if you have some magical way of making it all go to another drive please inform.

Edited July 1, 20223 yr by warbirds

4 minutes ago, warbirds said:

That's interesting because when I install, and I have three times  now, I go to Xbox app and select My Library and then select my version of the sim and click on it and it tells me it will install in D drive in the folder I made. I let the base game install and then go into play and it tells me there are a ton of stuff it needs to install so I point that to the same folder on D drive and wait a couple hours as it installs. So both times it was  pointed to D drive - so if you have some magical way of making it all go to another drive please inform.

You probav«bly set the default xBox install drive to D:, for any game installed through that platform. That's one of the nuisances of having this xBox X Store bivalence / dependency.

Last time I installed MFS I had to fight one of those "persistency" idiosyncrasy episodes, and that's why most probably my next install will be Steam-based... 

Anyway, check the following link: How to install or move your Xbox PC games to any folder | PCWorld

 

16 hours ago, warbirds said:

That's interesting because when I install, and I have three times  now, I go to Xbox app and select My Library and then select my version of the sim and click on it and it tells me it will install in D drive in the folder I made. I let the base game install and then go into play and it tells me there are a ton of stuff it needs to install so I point that to the same folder on D drive and wait a couple hours as it installs. So both times it was  pointed to D drive - so if you have some magical way of making it all go to another drive please inform.

There are two distinct parts to MSFS. The game and the content.
When it tells you that it is going to install the game, it just installs the exe file and prerequisites.

Once you open the game, it then tells you that it must install the content.
At that point, you can choose the location for the content, as you have done.

Once it is all installed, Windows will let you move the game part to any drive that you choose,
so you could then move it to the drive that you chose.
https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/621221-another-drive-maybe-but-why-also-have-parts-on-c/?do=findComment&comment=4804559

As I understand it, links will remain in the appdata folder but they will use only 2 MB or so, or for some, apparently only 20MB.

 

On 6/30/2022 at 9:30 PM, Reader said:

If MSFS was correctly installed onto a different drive, there would not be Community or Official folders on the C drive at all,
as reported in the OP of this topic.

I wonder if some users mistake links for actual folders.. it can be tricky if you are not looking closely..

As best I can tell, there are indeed several parts to an MSFS installation (as mentioned above)..

The "root" location on the C drive, the main program which can be on a different drive, and the "Content" (Official and Community folders) which can be on a third drive.  Different users have made different choices, and so I doubt there is a common explanation to any of this..

Take my example.. I installed MSFS on a dedicated H drive (program and Content) and this is what I find on my C drive (note that 7 out of the 8 folders are links to the H drive). 

However, if I click on LocalCache and then Packages, look at what shows up:

Edited July 2, 20223 yr by Bert Pieke

Just so.

On 6/29/2022 at 8:02 AM, warbirds said:

On C the localcache/simobjects/airplanes folder is full but each airplane folder only has the text State. Just strange that these other folders exist.

When you access these folders from the C drive, pay attention to the localcache folder before you open it.

You say that MSFS is installed on your D drive.. I bet you a beer that the Localcache "folder" is actually a link to your D drive and the airplanes folder is on the D drive, even when it appears to be on your C drive.. see my previous post for screenshots..

Although I think that the horse is now dead, to go back a little, here is the properties page
of the MSFS game folder in the C drive:

and here is the properties page of the same folder on the G drive, aka D drive on the OPs PC.
Even if the concept of a link is not understood, the dramatic difference in folder size should help to explain what is going on.

I suppose that Windows must need to be able to see these files on the C drive.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 3, 20223 yr by Reader